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Thursday, October 22nd, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Mechanical design in the age of AI
Antoine Jerusalem, Professor of Mechanical Engineering/Fellow at St Hugh's College, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

"Developing human-applicable gene therapy: safe and purpose-specific AAVs"
Seongmin Jang, Postdoctoral Scholar, Gradinaru Group,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar

Behavioral Incentive Compatibility and Personalization
Camila Farres Rodriguez, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
12:05pm – 1:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar

Dust-shrouded Cosmology Surveys: Impact of Milky Way Extinction on Galaxy Clustering and SNIa Cosmology
Tanveer Karim, Postdoc, University of Toronto,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra, Geometry, & Number Theory Seminar

Independence of tautological classes and cohomological stability for strata of differentials
Hannah Larson, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

"Beyond "healthy vs. sick": clues on how to make stable isotopes actually useful in medicine"
Esther Lahoud-Heilbronner, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector Arrays for Time-Resolved Imaging and Infrared Detection
Matthew Shaw, Senior Research Scientist, Supervisor of the Superconductive Materials and Devices Group, JPL,
Friday, October 23rd, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Quantum Breakdown Model: from Disorder-free Glass to SPT
Biao Lian, Princeton,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Quasi-periodic eruptions: new transient probes of stars near supermassive black holes
Joheen Chakraborty, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, MIT,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminars

Relating the Colored Jones Polynomial to Hyperbolic Volume Through Categorification
Christine Ruey Shan Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Texas State University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Susan and James Wu Aerospace Colloquium

Bridging rigorous methods with machine learning to build safe and intelligent autonomy
Chuchu Fan, School of Engineering Leonardo Career Development Chair, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Quantitative chemical imaging with vibrational microscopy
Philip Kocheril, Graduate Student (Wei Group),
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

How Do You Find a Planet You Can't See?
Anjali Tripathi, Research Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Saturday, October 24th, 2026
Sunday, October 25th, 2026
Monday, October 26th, 2026
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Moduli-Space Laplacians, Asymptotic Geometry, and the Emergent String Conjecture
Alex Stewart, UC Irvine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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EE Distinguished Lecture Series

Computer Architecture in the Age of Agentic AI
William J. Dally, Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Research at NVIDIA Corporation and an Adjunct Professor and former chair of Computer Science at Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Where did life begin?
Benjamin Tutolo, Professor of Earth, Energy, and Environment, Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment, University of Calgary,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

TBD
Kewen Wu, Assistant Professor, Department of Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

Crystal electric-field effect in rare-earth insulating magnets and its implications for thermal transport under magnetic field
Minhyea Lee, Professor of Physics, CU Boulder,
Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar

Multi-Text Representation Learning for Patent Validity Prediction
Nghia Tran Pham, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech AI Colloquium

Simulation-driven Robot Learning for the Lazy Researcher
Abhishek Gupta, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CNS/NB Seminar - Cliff Ragsdale

"Patterning and proprioception in the octopus arm"
Cliff Ragsdale, Professor of Neurobiology, University of Chicago,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

New Directions in Modular Representation Theory
Claus Sorensen, Professor of Mathematics, UCSD,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Topic to be announced
Emily Sellars, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University,
Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Linde Institute 15th Anniversary Seminar Series

Topic to be announced
Ulrike Malmendier, Cora Jane Flood Professor of Finance, UC Berkeley,
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Aidan Herderschee, Institute for Advanced Study,